Wilhelm Meister
Americannoun
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She appeals to Wilhelm Meister to rescue her.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Still, good is never as glamorous as evil, and Wilhelm Meister comes across as a little dull and worthy compared with the hero of Goethe’s most celebrated and canonical work, “Faust.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2016
It was a habit formed probably in early life, for somewhere in the Lehrjahre—a work of eighteen years' duration, but begun at the age of twenty-seven—he makes Wilhelm Meister speak of the value of it.
From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
"Wilhelm Meister" itself is not a more thoroughly characteristic production of the German mind.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
Goethe, his "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister," 59; Mrs. Howe's essay on his minor poems, 60; his motto, 205.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward
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